Phenomenon Of Social Sites

Phenomenon of social sites has become one of the most important
parts in the Internet environment and communicating technologies.
Social sites have a big influnce on the lives of people. Due to
Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein's social media (synonym to
«socail sites») «create highly interactive platforms through
which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and
modify user-generated content. It introduces substantial and
pervasive changes to communication between organizations,
communities and individuals». Yes, that is truth. In the next
part I am going to do a survey of the most popular social sites
in the world.

The first object of this survey is Facebook. It was founded in
February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. And now it has more than one
billion users. Facebook added over 200 million users in less than
year and now it tops Google for weekly traffic in the USA. 60
million status updates happen on Facebook daily. The fastest
growing segment on the site is 55-65 years-old females. If
Facebook were a country it would be the world’s third largest.
People trust facebook more than advertisements. A percent of
18-34 year olds who check Facebook when they wake up is 48 %. A
percent of 18-34 year olds who check Facebook before they get out
of bed is 28 %. 350 million users who access the site through a
mobile device. There are 3 million message sent everyday.

Now I am going to take a view of Vkontakte. It was found in
October 2006 in Russia. 44,3% of users are females and 55,7% are
males. 31,4% of people have higher degree and 32,3 % are married.
Everyday there is 40 million hosts. Comparing with population of
Ukraine, it is less only on 45 million. On the beginning of its
development most of users were people from Commomnwealth of
Independent States especially from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
Nowadays, a quantity of users from the western Europe increases.

There are a lot of other chats where people spend their time.

Thanks to social sites we can make our communication faster and
do that in comfortable time for us. According to statistics 96%
of Millenias have joined a social network. So humanity has unique
chance to be in contact everytime and everywhere. 1 out of 8
couples marries in the USA met via social media. Despite of good
sides, social sites have disadvantages. Due to the newest
pulling, people spend 11 hours per month in social sites in
Ukraine. It is told that people who study without the Internet
get better marks that thie opposites. It is meant that they study
in their free time. The level of development decreases. According
to statistics, mostly users are people from 18 till 25 years old.
As I observed with users in my own pages in the Internet, I saw
the next. In facebook I have people different ages beginning from
18 years old, while in Vkontakte I see children from seven years
old. Social sites can also be the reason of hatred and
jealousity. As people see another life and begin to want kind of
the same. Psycholigists can find out a lot of facts about people
from their social pages.for example, the scientists from
Cambridge University reseached that we can determine person’s
tastes or thoughts by their «like» on social sites. Yes, if a
person gives «likes» on the pictures for some protests, this
means that he or she supports them. As for the bad sides, a new
study suggests that social media siteshave created a new
phenomenon knows as «Facebook depression». The American Academy
of Pediatrics recently warned parents about the possible dangers
of networking websites on their children’s mental health. Report
co-author Gwenn O’Keefe described the way social interaction is
changing: «For some teens and tweens, social media is the primary
way they interact socially, rather than at the mall or a friend's
house,» she said.

Social sites have advantages and disadvantages. The first ones
are spreading information rapidly and global communication. But
the second ones are wasting time, losing communicative skills,
and degradation. I cannot give full mark as there are different
positive and negative sides. In the meantime, social sites are
step forward and degradation.

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